Apr 15, 2014 10:37 pm | Paul R. Pillar
Now that Secretary of State Kerry's attempt to
breathe life into the diplomacy known as the Middle East peace process
has been widely pronounced—even by those who appropriately salute his
efforts—to be a failure, different quarters are chiming in with
recommendations for what to do next about the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Some suggestions are helpful; others would only help to
perpetuate the Israeli occupation and lack of an agreement, and may be
tacitly intended to do just that.The New York Times editorial board proposes that the United States, as a last act before ending this phase of its active diplomacy on the problem, post on the international bulletin board its own sense of what the principles of a final settlement ought to look like. This is probably worth doing, and it has the merit of reflecting the fact that the basic lines of a feasible two-state solution have been apparent for some time. Perhaps this would help to clarify who is resisting such a settlement and who is not. This has been tried before, however, most notably with the Clinton parameters, and it was insufficient to push the process over a finish line.
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